September 21, 2012

Sometimes English is a different language

Peter and I were discussing the size of beef brisket this morning and trying to decide whether to buy the 1 or the 1.5 kilo roast. “The 1.5 kilo roast is about 8 pounds,” he said.
I looked at him in disbelief. If you’ve lived in both the US and the UK as long as we have, you become bi-lingual in converting celsius to fahrenheit, centimetres to inches, kilometers to miles, liters to quarts, kilos to pounds. Was this a rare and uncharacteristic manifestation of dementia?

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